Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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 •i- 1-'- — Bless us and keep us! Hans Castorp said to Joachim, as they stood in the lift. What a pedagogue it is! He said himself that he had the ‘pedagogic itch.’ One has to watch out with him, not to say more than one means, or he is down on you at once with all his doctrines. But after all. it is worth listening to, he talks so well; the words come jumping out of his mouth so round and appetizing—when I listen to him, 1 keep seeing a picture of fresh hot rolls in my mind’s eye. Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism; and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment.”

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Thus he went on, Hans Castorp laughing with good-natured enjoyment at this glib and prolific stream of slander. It was, indeed, great fun to listen to, so eloquent was it, so precisely rendered, so free from every trace of dialect. The words came, round, clear-cut, and as though newly minted, from his mobile lips, he tasted his own well-turned, dexterous, biting phrases with obvious and contagious relish, and seemed to be far too clear- headed and self-possessed ever to mis-speak.

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